Browso Documentation

Browso is a desktop browser with an AI assistant built into the side panel. It can explain the page you are viewing, compare open tabs, save useful pages, and help with multi-step browsing tasks.

Start Here

Getting Started explains installation, AI setup, and your first question.
Using Browso covers tabs, split view, research, automation, saved pages, profiles, and data controls.
Settings, Memory, And Knowledge explains every settings section in more detail.
Commands lists the optional shortcuts available in chat.
Safety And Privacy explains what can leave your computer and when Browso stops for user control.

What You Can Ask Browso To Do

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Summarize this page in five bullet points.
Explain the text I selected.
Compare these open tabs and cite each source.
Find the return policy for this product.
Save this page so I can use it in later research.
Check this page for visible signs of phishing.

Browso automatically chooses the right kind of assistance from your request. You do not need to select an agent mode.

Important Limits

AI answers can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date.
Websites can block automation or change in ways that break a task.
Browso stops before login, payment, submission, deletion, and similar sensitive actions.
OpenAI and Anthropic receive the page context needed for a request. Ollama runs model requests through your configured local Ollama server.
Saving a page is explicit. Browso does not silently add every visited page to its knowledge.

For Contributors

These pages describe how the project is built and tested: